Unprecedentedness

We live in uncertain, unpredictable times.  Reality seems to be shifting daily beneath our feet, regardless of who we are and what presumptions about the world and the nature of reality we harbor within us, no matter if we are “traditional” or “modern,” for the very designations traditional and modern no longer mean what they once did, not so long ago, during the modern and postmodern periods, in which our contemporary concepts of traditionalist and modernist first emerged.  The reason why everything seems so unprecedented now is because the context in which we had become accustomed to understanding the world, or what we thought of as the world, no longer exists.  Modernity no longer exists.  Postmodernity no longer exists.  We live in a new period, a new context, which we do not yet understand.  If the world seems chaotic it is not because the world is inherently meaningless, it is because we don’t yet have the vocabulary to articulate the context in which we now live, for the simple reason that each new day, each action, each thought, each spoken word, by each individual soul now living contributes to the creation of the context of this not-yet-named epoch in which we now live.